Rather than looking at individual
research outputs this tool looks for information on the overall impact
of your research based on a series of searches for your name. If your
name is not a particularly unique one you may struggle to differentiate
your impact from that of other individuals with the same name.

Does commentary
appear in the Proquest databases?

The Proquest family includes a number of key arts
and design databases that between them cover many hundreds of scholarly
and professional journals and magzines in the arts and music.

ARTbibliographies Modern

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index

International Index to Music Periodicals

Google Scholar and Google Books

Google Scholar does a reasonable job of identifying individual
researchers and this search adds the Massey address to make it more
accurate. However if a significant proportion of your research was not
carried out at Massey then this will probably not be found. Be aware
that Google Scholar citation counts will be inflated and should be
treated with caution, but that significant citations will often be
found that the scholarly databases miss.

Google Scholar may also find commentary on your work - use MasseyLink
to open the full text of these articles.

This search will find books on which your name appears on the same page
as the word Massey. Do not
treat it as a metric but as a potential source of evidence of
your
impact. Check carefully to ensure that you are the person being
referred to.

The Google Books algorithm will find many items that do not include
your name at all. Your name should appear in the snippet like this -

New Zealand Sources

New Zealand information can be a valuable source of evidence for the
broader social, political, cultural or economic impact of your research.

Index New Zealand searches local journals and trade publications

Newztext provides coverage to more than 1,000 New
Zealand publications, many of which could include book and exhibition
reviews and
other relevant articles. Titles include New Zealand Books, Art New
Zealand, The Listener, Metro, He Pukenga Korero, Landfall, New Zealand
Journal of History and of course the newspapers.

If you have appeared on Radio New Zealand or featured in their
news broadcasts then this search can provide evidence of this,
including links to audio.

References in government reports and other official documents can be
particularly valuable evidence of the uptake and implementation of your
research.

Other Sources

A straight Google search for your name is always worth trying and you
can add the titles of creative works to the search to see if
there is anything out there by way of commentary in blogs and on
websites.

While Google News Archive is not as thorough as Newtext is may
find some international mentions of your name.

Has
your name been tweeted? If you have a Twitter handle or a hashtag
associated with your research don't foget to search for them as well,
as tweets can be a good source of endorsement and positive comment.